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Some critics said her harsh language stemmed from the paper's printing of negative reports about her and her second husband, who was running as the Democratic nominee for president. The ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'' had reprinted an 2004 gossip piece from the ''[[Boston Herald]]'' that suggested her husband had had a "very private" friendship with a younger female colleague. McNickle had also run an op-ed piece, written by [[Tom Randall]] of the Scaife-funded [[Capital Research Center]], alleging that Heinz's contributions to the [[Tides Foundation]] were funding radical Islamist, environmental, and pro-homosexual groups.[http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_169770.html]. (The allegations were deemed false by the watchdog group, FactCheck.org). [http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx@docID=224.html] |
Some critics said her harsh language stemmed from the paper's printing of negative reports about her and her second husband, who was running as the Democratic nominee for president. The ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'' had reprinted an 2004 gossip piece from the ''[[Boston Herald]]'' that suggested her husband had had a "very private" friendship with a younger female colleague. McNickle had also run an op-ed piece, written by [[Tom Randall]] of the Scaife-funded [[Capital Research Center]], alleging that Heinz's contributions to the [[Tides Foundation]] were funding radical Islamist, environmental, and pro-homosexual groups.[http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_169770.html]. (The allegations were deemed false by the watchdog group, FactCheck.org). [http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx@docID=224.html] |
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The allegations were deemed factual by a range of foreign policy, business and conservative policy groups, including Jewish Voice and Opinion, Kesher Talk, Israel Forum, Accuracy in Media and Jihad Watch [http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/000960.php]. |
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Revision as of 16:20, 28 January 2005
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is an American newspaper, and the third largest newspaper in the state of Pennsylvania. Its publisher is Richard Mellon Scaife and is generally considered to have a conservative opinion page.
Since its founding more than a decade ago, following a press strike at the two previously dominant dailies, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters have won a number of national, state and local awards.
Carl Prine, an investigative reporter for the newspaper, conducted a probe with the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes that highlighted the lack of security at the nation's most dangerous chemical plants following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Prine and another Tribune-Review reporter, Betsy Hiel, won several awards for their combat coverage during the invasion of Iraq.
During the war, the Tribune-Review launched an afternoon tabloid, Trib PM. Both newspapers compete against the slightly larger Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In early 2004, unions representing Post-Gazette workers agreed to wage concessions to keep the daily afloat. Published reports showed that the Post-Gazette had lost nearly $20 million over the past decade.
While the Post-Gazette shrank, the chain of Tribune-Review newspapers continued to expand, purchasing a string of weeklies that ring Pittsburgh in 2004.
Total regional circulation is estimated at 221,000, which makes the new regional broadsheet the 47th largest daily nationwide, just above the Seattle Times, according to the Audit Bureau of Reviews.
One of the most famous incidents for the paper occured at a July 26 speech at the Massachusetts State House when the Tribune-Review editorial page editor Colin McNickle had asked Teresa Heinz Kerry to clarify a statement she made before a group of reporters and Pennsylvania delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Heinz Kerry told McNickle, "You're from the Tribune-Review— understandable. You said something I didn't say. Now shove it." The comment received wide attention in the media.
Some critics said her harsh language stemmed from the paper's printing of negative reports about her and her second husband, who was running as the Democratic nominee for president. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review had reprinted an 2004 gossip piece from the Boston Herald that suggested her husband had had a "very private" friendship with a younger female colleague. McNickle had also run an op-ed piece, written by Tom Randall of the Scaife-funded Capital Research Center, alleging that Heinz's contributions to the Tides Foundation were funding radical Islamist, environmental, and pro-homosexual groups.[1]. (The allegations were deemed false by the watchdog group, FactCheck.org). [2]
The allegations were deemed factual by a range of foreign policy, business and conservative policy groups, including Jewish Voice and Opinion, Kesher Talk, Israel Forum, Accuracy in Media and Jihad Watch [3].